From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb 10 09:17:33 2003 Subject: Re: command history From: "Michael W. Martin" To: Octave Help Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:15:44 -0600 On fredag, feb 7, 2003, at 05:51 Europe/Stockholm, Brian Merkey wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running octave under Mac OS X and am wondering how I can get > functionality to edit the previous command. For example, in gnuplot I > can press the up-arrow to go to the previous command, but octave does > not register the keypress as an action and instead just shows the > control sequence (^[[A). Neither up-arrow nor control-p work, and I > have tried several terminals to see if that is the problem (I'm using > xterm and vt100). Is there something else I could try? Thanks for > the help. Sounds like your terminal setup is not configured properly. I can freely use the arrow keys in the command line in both X11 (Apple's X11 dist.) and Terminal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael W. Martin Phone: (281) 333-2177 Draper Laboratory FAX: (281) 333-5276 2200 Space Park Dr. EMail: martin at simba dot jsc dot draper dot com Houston, TX 77058 WWW: http://www.jsc.draper.com/ USA Mail Code: EG/Draper ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------